• One offers shows about talking cars and bulky men in unitards, while the other serves up Oscar-winner Holly Hunter and Emmy-winner Kyra Sedgwick.

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  • This year, the festival will host internationally-renowned authors such as Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Kumonyakaa, British Book Award-winner Hari Kunzru, Moroccan writer Abdelkader Benali, famed poet Beth Lisick and travel writer Peter Moore.

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  • Among the women, four-time winner Cindy Harris of the United States will be taking part, as well three-time winner Suzy Walsham of Australia.

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  • What some investors fail to grasp is that the Internet increasingly is producing winner-take-all markets, and Facebook is the biggest winner in the biggest market of them all, our personal relationships.

    FORBES: On the web it's winner-take-all.

  • Ten weekly winners and 10 other contestants were invited to compete in the final two-week winner-take-all round, in which each was given another 1 million CNBC bucks to build a brand new portfolio.

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  • Historically, virtually all of the major changes in the method of electing the President, including ending the requirement that only men who owned substantial property could vote and 48 current state-by-state winner-take-all laws, have come about by state legislative action.

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  • And Welsh Open winner Stephen Lee was a 3-2 winner over Basildon's Stuart Bingham, who lost his first game after a 3-0 win over Welshman Mark Williams earlier in the day.

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  • Although we have a coalition right now, the British system tends to produce clear-cut, winner-takes-all results.

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  • The College undergirds the two-party system with its state-by-state, winner-take-all approach, which, in turn, helps preserve national unity.

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  • But if a zero-sum, winner-take-all struggle for leverage is the name of the game, those games seldom conclude as the winners might hope.

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  • But no one is obliged to go out and vote for one - and in so doing confer upon the process - and the winner - some democratic legitimacy.

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  • The Clothes On Their Backs - a story about survival and how garments inform who we are by Orange prize-winner Linda Grant - also makes it into the longlist.

    BBC: Rushdie tipped for 2008 Booker

  • In our world-is-flat, winner-take-all economy, many futurists said the winners would fall into two camps: super nimble start-ups from Silicon Valley (and similar hotbeds) wielding world-class technology and talent and the largest multinationals with brand, reach and fortress balance sheets.

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  • "Self-deportation" (a term used by Mr Romney in one of the Republican primary debates) might have seemed like a humane option - and Republican vote winner - to Mr Romney.

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  • The winner of Trump's reality-TV show will be revealed Thursday night, but we're unveiling our winner today--and it's not Trump but Oprah Winfrey .

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  • Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee -- winner of the Iowa caucuses -- finished third in New Hampshire with 11 percent.

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  • They had begun in lively fashion when Henri Lansbury - the injury-time match-winner against Millwall on Tuesday - blazed over the bar after only a minute.

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  • If the match is tied after three sets, then a single-arrow shoot-off will determine the winner - the archer who shoots the arrow closest to the centre advances.

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  • It sets up what promises to be a crackerjack of a match against Manchester City at Eastlands on Wednesday, a fixture that - with Aston Villa out of the running for fourth spot as a result of their defeat in Manchester on Saturday afternoon - could effectively be a winner-takes-all play-off for the final Champions League spot.

    BBC: Tottenham 1-0 Bolton

  • He's tied with Los Angeles's Drew Doughty for the most points among defensemen, and his second-period goal Saturday was the game-winner in a Devils' 2-1 victory that extended the Stanley Cup Finals to a Game 6 on Monday.

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  • Reeves will now face Belgium's Els Callens, a 2-6 7-5 7-6 winner over sixth-seeded Marissa Irvin of the United States.

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  • Bayern, a four-time winner and runner-up twice in the last three seasons, joined Barcelona, Real Madrid, Malaga, Juventus, Borussia Dortmund, Paris Saint-Germain and Galatasaray in Friday's quarterfinal draw.

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  • Both Toulouse and Bath - whose final match would have been winner-goes-through if Wasps had won - were also guaranteed a last-eight berth.

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  • Animal Kingdom, the 2011 Derby winner, and two-time Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic winner Royal Delta, along with Dullahan, will attempt to give American-based horses their first World Cup win since 2010, when the track was changed from dirt to a synthetic surface.

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  • It did not matter that those listening to the debate on the radio believed the vice-president to have emerged the clear winner - the on-screen poise of the younger, lesser-known man dispelled any notion that he was too young and inexperienced for office.

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  • Under Marinitch's guidance, Orozco claimed bronze at the 2011 U.S. Nationals (where he earned the same second-day score as the winner Danell Leyva in a format where the highest two-day total determined the winner), and had his breakout performance at the Worlds two months later in Japan.

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  • Now, with the X-E1, I appear to have purchased another winner -- this one with the added versatility of interchangeable lenses.

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  • After dominating the first set, two stunning winners - a backhand down the line and crosscourt forehand winner - saw the two-time semi-finalist, whose only Grand Slam title came at the 2005 US Open, break to love to seal it and she opened the second with a confident hold.

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  • And Bourdais, a four-time winner of the US-based Champ Car series, admitted his relief at finally securing the drive.

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  • Third-seed Venus had looked a nailed-on winner until the second-set tiebreak, at which point her serve inexplicably deserted her.

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